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Pre-Marital Counseling and Therapy for Newly Married Couples

At Orenstein Solutions, our therapists enjoy working with pre-marital and newly married couples who want to create a healthy foundation.  Couples are given inventories to assess their relationship skills, compatibility, and areas in their relationship that may be causing difficulty (such as finances, religion, sexual issues). Then we meet together for a feedback session, where the couple becomes aware of their strengths and differences.  In addition, couples learn a step-wise model to resolve disagreements and discuss personal and couple goals.

In general, our role as a marital therapists is to help each partner in a marriage identify their needs and those of their partner by showing couples how to communicate more effectively and to appreciate differences in each other.  In this process, couples develop an atmosphere of affection and appreciation and increased intimacy.  We also strive to help couples develop more mutual pleasure in their time together by incorporating more light-heartedness, passion and friendship in their relationship.